Rigveda Samhita — Mandala 10 — Chapter 34

RV 10 34.1

प्रावेपा मा बृहतो मादयन्ति प्रवातेजा इरिणे वर्वृतानाः । सोमस्येव मौजवतस्य भक्षो विभीदको जागृविर् मह्यम् अच्छान्

prāvepā mā bṛhato mādayanti pravātejā iriṇe varvṛtānāḥ | somasyeva maujavatasya bhakṣo vibhīdako jāgṛvir mahyam acchān

The dangling ones of the tall (tree) delight me, born in the wind, rolling on the dice-ground. Like a draught of soma from Mūjavat, the wakeful vibhīdaka nut has pleased me.

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RV 10 34.2

न मा मिमेथ न जिहीऴ एषा शिवा सखिभ्य उत मह्यम् आसीत् । अक्षस्याहम् एकपरस्य हेतोर् अनुव्रताम् अप जायाम् अरोधम्

na mā mimetha na jihīḻa eṣā śivā sakhibhya uta mahyam āsīt | akṣasyāham ekaparasya hetor anuvratām apa jāyām arodham

She did not wrangle with me, she was not angry; she was kind to my friends and to me. For the sake of a die, one too many, I thrust away my devoted wife.

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RV 10 34.3

द्वेष्टि श्वश्रूर् अप जाया रुणद्धि न नाथितो विन्दते मर्डितारम् । अश्वस्येव जरतो वस्न्यस्य नाहꣳ विन्दामि कितवस्य भोगम्

dveṣṭi śvaśrūr apa jāyā ruṇaddhi na nāthito vindate marḍitāram | aśvasyeva jarato vasnyasya nāhaṁ vindāmi kitavasya bhogam

The mother-in-law hates (me), the wife pushes (me) away; the man in need finds no one to show him pity. "I find no use in a gambler, as none in an old horse for sale."

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RV 10 34.4

अन्ये जायाम् परि मृशन्त्य् अस्य यस्यागृधद् वेदने वाज्य् अ१क्षः । पिता माता भ्रातर एनम् आहुर् न जानीमो नयता बद्धम् एतम्

anye jāyām pari mṛśanty asya yasyāgṛdhad vedane vājy a1kṣaḥ | pitā mātā bhrātara enam āhur na jānīmo nayatā baddham etam

Others handle the wife of him whose property the strong die has coveted. Father, mother and brothers say of him: "We do not know him; lead this man away bound."

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RV 10 34.5

यद् आदीध्ये न दविषाण्य् एभिः परायद्भ्यो ऽव हीये सखिभ्यः । न्युप्ताश् च बभ्रवो वाचम् अक्रतꣳ एमीद् एषाꣳ निष्कृतꣳ जारिणीव

yad ādīdhye na daviṣāṇy ebhiḥ parāyadbhyo 'va hīye sakhibhyaḥ | nyuptāś ca babhravo vācam akratam̐ emīd eṣāṁ niṣkṛtaṁ jāriṇīva

When I consider, "I will not gamble with these," I am left behind by my friends as they go off; but when the brown ones, thrown down, have raised their voice, I go straight to their meeting-place like a woman to her lover.

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RV 10 34.6

सभाम् एति कितवः पृच्छमानो जेष्यामीति तन्वा३ शूशुजानः । अक्षासो अस्य वि तिरन्ति कामम् प्रतिदीव्ने दधत आ कृतानि

sabhām eti kitavaḥ pṛcchamāno jeṣyāmīti tanvā3 śūśujānaḥ | akṣāso asya vi tiranti kāmam pratidīvne dadhata ā kṛtāni

The gambler goes to the assembly hall, asking (himself), "I shall win!"—swelling with his body. The dice run counter to his desire, assigning the winning throws to his opponent at play.

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RV 10 34.7

अक्षास इद् अङ्कुशिनो नितोदिनो निकृत्वानस् तपनास् तापयिष्णवः । कुमारदेष्णा जयतः पुनर्हणो मध्वा सम्पृक्ताः कितवस्य बर्हणा

akṣāsa id aṅkuśino nitodino nikṛtvānas tapanās tāpayiṣṇavaḥ | kumāradeṣṇā jayataḥ punarhaṇo madhvā sampṛktāḥ kitavasya barhaṇā

The dice indeed are hooked, piercing, deceitful, burning and made to burn; giving like boys, they strike back the winner; they are smeared with honey through the gambler's strength.

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RV 10 34.8

त्रिपञ्चाशः क्रीऴति व्रात एषाꣳ देव इव सविता सत्यधर्मा । उग्रस्य चिन् मन्यवे ना नमन्ते राजा चिद् एभ्यो नम इत् कृणोति

tripañcāśaḥ krīḻati vrāta eṣāṁ deva iva savitā satyadharmā | ugrasya cin manyave nā namante rājā cid ebhyo nama it kṛṇoti

Their troop, three times fifty, plays like the god Savitā, whose ordinances are true. They do not bow to the anger even of a mighty man; even a king does homage to them.

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RV 10 34.9

नीचा वर्तन्त उपरि स्फुरन्त्य् अहस्तासो हस्तवन्तꣳ सहन्ते । दिव्या अङ्गारा इरिणे न्युप्ताः शीताः सन्तो हृदयꣳ निर् दहन्ति

nīcā vartanta upari sphuranty ahastāso hastavantaṁ sahante | divyā aṅgārā iriṇe nyuptāḥ śītāḥ santo hṛdayaṁ nir dahanti

They roll downward, they leap up; handless, they overcome the man with hands. Heavenly coals strewn on the gaming-ground, though cold, they burn out the heart.

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RV 10 34.10

जाया तप्यते कितवस्य हीना माता पुत्रस्य चरतः क्व स्वित् । ऋणावा बिभ्यद् धनम् इच्छमानो ऽन्येषाम् अस्तम् उप नक्तम् एति

jāyā tapyate kitavasya hīnā mātā putrasya carataḥ kva svit | ṛṇāvā bibhyad dhanam icchamāno 'nyeṣām astam upa naktam eti

The gambler's wife, abandoned, is tormented, and the mother of the son who roams—where is he? Indebted, afraid, wanting wealth, he goes by night to the house of others.

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RV 10 34.11

स्त्रियꣳ दृष्ट्वाय कितवꣳ ततापान्येषाꣳ जायाꣳ सुकृतꣳ च योनिम् । पूर्वाह्णे अश्वान् युयुजे हि बभ्रून् सो अग्नेर् अन्ते वृषलः पपाद

striyaṁ dṛṣṭvāya kitavaṁ tatāpānyeṣāṁ jāyāṁ sukṛtaṁ ca yonim | pūrvāhṇe aśvān yuyuje hi babhrūn so agner ante vṛṣalaḥ papāda

It pained the gambler to see the woman, the wife of others and their well-made home. For in the early morning he harnessed the brown horses (the dice), and at the end (of it), he, the wretch, fell beside the fire.

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RV 10 34.12

यो वः सेनानीर् महतो गणस्य राजा व्रातस्य प्रथमो बभूव । तस्मै कृणोमि न धना रुणध्मि दशाहम् प्राचीस् तद् ऋतꣳ वदामि

yo vaḥ senānīr mahato gaṇasya rājā vrātasya prathamo babhūva | tasmai kṛṇomi na dhanā ruṇadhmi daśāham prācīs tad ṛtaṁ vadāmi

To him who is your leader, the king who became the first of the great company, the troop—to him I make (homage); I do not withhold wealth. I hold out my ten (fingers) forward: this truth I speak.

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RV 10 34.13

अक्षैर् मा दीव्यः कृषिम् इत् कृषस्व वित्ते रमस्व बहु मन्यमानः । तत्र गावः कितव तत्र जाया तन् मे वि चष्टे सवितायम् अर्यः

akṣair mā dīvyaḥ kṛṣim it kṛṣasva vitte ramasva bahu manyamānaḥ | tatra gāvaḥ kitava tatra jāyā tan me vi caṣṭe savitāyam aryaḥ

Do not play with dice; plough your ploughland! Take pleasure in what you have, thinking it much. There are your cows, gambler, there your wife—this Savitā, the noble lord, reveals to me.

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RV 10 34.14

मित्रꣳ कृणुध्वꣳ खलु मृऴता नो मा नो घोरेण चरताभि धृष्णु । नि वो नु मन्युर् विशताम् अरातिर् अन्यो बभ्रूणाम् प्रसितौ न्व् अस्तु

mitraṁ kṛṇudhvaṁ khalu mṛḻatā no mā no ghoreṇa caratābhi dhṛṣṇu | ni vo nu manyur viśatām arātir anyo babhrūṇām prasitau nv astu

Make friendship, be gracious to us indeed; do not assail us with dread violence. Let your anger and hostility settle down elsewhere; let another be in the snare of the brown (dice).

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition